This is a 7-page unit from the Developing Comprehension skills and word knowledge series that covers:

Text

Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose (ACELA1463)

Identify aspects of different types of texts that entertain, and give reasons for personal preferences (ACELT1590)

Know some features of text organisation including page and screen layouts, alphabetical order, and different types of diagrams, for example timelines (ACELA1466)

Use interaction skills including initiating topics, making positive statements and voicing disagreement in an appropriate manner, speaking clearly and varying tone, volume and pace appropriately (ACELY1789)

Comprehension

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures (ACELY1670)

Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit audience and purpose (ACELA1470)

Compare opinions about characters, events and settings in between (ACELT1589)

Word knowledge

Understand how to use knowledge of diagraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell one and two syllable words including some compound words (ACELA1471)

Use most letter-sound matches including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, letter clusters and silent letters when reading and writing words of one or more syllable (ACELA1824)

Understand that a sound can be represented by various letter combinations (ACELA1825)

Recognise common prefixes and suffixes and how they change a word’s meaning (ACELA1472)

Each individual text type covers a number of content descriptions across the Language, Literature and Literacy strands of Australian Curriculum English. The detailed lesson plans save valuable planning time and allow for individual student differences. Use all, or some, of the ideas provided to cater to the needs of your class.

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